SOCHI. Oct 23 (Interfax) - Russia demands that security be preserved at prisons for terrorists and refugee camps in the eastern Trans Euphrates, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday.
"We deal with this virtually on a daily basis and persistently say that the current security that is there today must be preserved," Shoigu told reporters.
"This request, or a strong demand of ours, is accommodated," he said.
"There was a period of more than 48 hours when prison security was off in some camps, and as a result, some of those held in the camps - up to 500 people, according to our estimates - I won't say categorically that all of those people were terrorists - eventually escaped," he said.